Using OneSearch, search for articles on topics within Southern Culture using the following terms within the search box:

"Southern culture" "United States" 

Add additional terms to narrow down to your topic (i.e.,

• literature (William Faulkner)
• music (or jazz, hip-hop, blues, or a particular performer [Elvis Presley] or particular instrument [dobro or dulcimer])
• cuisine (or cooking, food, barbecue)
• architecture (plantation style, a particular building)
• race (or racism, racial attitudes, Klan, racial violence, racial healing)
• religion (or religious music, Martin Luther King, Jr.)
• identity
• economics
• Rebels (or CSA or Confederate States of America, reenactments)
• location (Appalachia, Charleston, New Orleans, sundown towns/counties)
• movies (Gone with the Wind, Sweet Home Alabama, Driving Miss Daisy)
• poetry (Langston Hughes)
• hospitality (traditions, symbols)
• ethnic cleansing (Alabama, Cherokee, Catawba, Choctaw, Muscogee, Seminoles)

Need help? Watch this video!

FAU Library Catalog

The Library Catalog allows you to search for books, government documents, DVDs, electronic books, and other materials in the Library's collection. The catalog will tell you if the library owns a particular periodical (journal or magazine) but does not include the articles found in periodicals. To find these you must use the databases (see "Databases" tab above). The Advanced Search screen allows you to combine terms using “and", "or", and "not” as well as limiting a search by location, date, format, or language.

OneSearch

OneSearch is a good place to start your research. Search across a variety of quality information provided by FAU Libraries: Journal and newspaper articles, books, maps, music, videos, and more. 

WorldCat Database

The WorldCat database allows you to search a combined catalog of most of the libraries in North America, and many in other parts of the world. Items not owned by FAU may be ordered through the Interlibrary Loan service.

To request books from other libraries, use Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Loan time takes 7-10 days, so don’t wait until the last minute!

Refer to call numbers to find our books on the shelves. Every book is assigned a call number which tells you where in the library you can find it.  For more help, watch our short tutorial.

Through a statewide initiative in coordination with FALSC and other institutions of the Florida College System and State University System libraries, the FAU Libraries is transitioning e-resources authentication from EZproxy to OpenAthens.

OpenAthens is a gateway service that provides access to the FAU Libraries' licensed electronic resources. For the first time, you will have access to the Libraries’ e-resources without needing to be on the Libraries’ website! You can use an Internet search engine like Google or go directly to a publisher’s website to access the Libraries “Athenized” e-resources via FAU Single Sign-On (SSO)!  

• More information can be found here OpenAthens 

• How To Use OpenAthens  

• OpenAthens Video Tutorials